Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Come and meet MP Brad Trost, candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party. Trost is a principled Conservative leader who supports traditional marriage and the pro-life position. He was elected in 2004 and is an MP from the province of Saskatchewan.

Friday, October 14, 2016

Psychology professor Jordan Peterson is refusing to use the personal pronouns associated with the gender that a person identifies with, but will only use the personal pronoun that agrees with their biological gender.

For that, he is being vilified and there is talk of a case against the University of Toronto by the Ontario Human Rights Commission because they have not reprimanded or fired Professor Peterson.

So this is what the sexual revolution has come to. An ever-growing number of young adults who pretend to be whatever gender they choose and remember, that is fluid.

As one other psychologist said to Peterson, the claim is that you cannot say people are born heterosexual, but the trans-gender premise is that 'you are born this way'. Someone can claim to be homosexual from birth, so why can't the opposite be said? The argument is so easy to refute.

But the saddest thing of all is to look at these kids who are giving the finger to the cameraman, who have been taken in by all this talk of gender and sexuality and whose lives are being ruined over it.

Support Peterson in his fight for free speech. Because if you don't have free speech, you will have violence. As he very clearly reasons, speech is the tool by which we deal with conflict. Eliminate that and you will have actual physical conflict.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

How ironic, then, that a culture which rejects moral standards has suddenly become so pure and pristine, sitting in judgment of someone they deem too immoral to become president because of something he said in private. As a logical person, I have to ask these paragons of newly found virtue where this standard by which they've judged Trump is found.

Those who are complaining about Trump today have no basis for their moral outrage. That's because their secular amoral worldview rejects any basis for that moral judgment. Any argument they make against the "immorality" of Trump is stolen, or at least borrowed for expediency, from a religious worldview they have soundly rejected.

As Mark Levin said in his broadcast on Monday evening, no mention was made of the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne that was the fault of Senator Ted Kennedy, no mention was made of the numerous affairs of Jack Kennedy while he was a sitting president, Bill Clinton's affairs were given a pass. But Donald Trump's lewd remarks are being put out there with the statement that he is not fit to be president.

How is Hillary Clinton fit to be president? a woman who wholeheartedly supports the grisly procedure of partial-birth abortion, the woman who didn't answer the phone at 3 am when Ambassador Chris Stevens was being killed in Libya, the woman who with Barack Obama helped the fuel the rise of ISIS in the middle-east.

If Donald Trump is not fit to be president, then certainly Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president. The danger with Hillary Clinton is her Saul Alinsky ideology which will radically change America and move it so far left that there will never be another Republican president.

For those who are comparing the individuals who are running for president and who are going to vote on whom they think is the more 'moral' individual, you are dead wrong. It is not about the individual persons running, it is about what they will do to the country once elected. And, as Mark Levin said, if you abstain from voting because you think there is no plausible candidate, then you are guilty of whatever happens. You are complicit in what happens if you simply stay away or spoil your ballot.

This is a frightening moment in American history. Newt Gingrich said that, for the first time in his life, he is actually afraid of the future. This from a very reasoned man whose background is history. If he says he is afraid, then we should be too.

HANNITY: And there was a conference call earlier today and
in the conference call basically Paul Ryan just distanced
himself totally, wants nothing to do with Donald Trump, and
the next eleven people, eleven or twelve people that spoke
said what are you doing? And it seems that he would rather
look at the sins of Trump, which I would agree, okay? Nobody
is going to defend his words that he had on this tape. But I think
it's unconscionable that the only person that would bring up the
actions of the Clintons, which is now fair game and pertinent and
front and center in this campaign, had to be Donald Trump himself.

GINGRICH: Well no I don’t think it’s cowardice, I think it’s
genuine confusion. These are people who let the media manipulate
them into believing that they only question Donald Trump. Now I’ve,
as you said earlier, I’ve dealt with the Clintons. And I can tell you,
if they think dealing with Obama has been hard. Hillary Clinton is
more radical than Obama. She is more dishonest than Obama,
she is more skillful at manipulation than Obama. The idea that
they suggest anybody, that tolerating a Clinton presidency is an
acceptable feat for America is a sign that they are not thinking.
And I say this as a citizen not because I am for Donald Trump.
I am deeply frightened that a Clinton administration would be
the end of America as we have known it.

How ironic, then, that a culture which rejects moral standards has suddenly become so pure and pristine, sitting in judgment of someone they deem too immoral to become president because of something he said in private. As a logical person, I have to ask these paragons of newly found virtue where this standard by which they've judged Trump is found.

Those who are complaining about Trump today have no basis for their moral outrage. That's because their secular amoral worldview rejects any basis for that moral judgment. Any argument they make against the "immorality" of Trump is stolen, or at least borrowed for expediency, from a religious worldview they have soundly rejected.

As Mark Levin said in his broadcast on Monday evening, no mention was made of the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne that was the fault of Senator Ted Kennedy, no mention was made of the numerous affairs of Jack Kennedy while he was a sitting president, Bill Clinton's affairs were given a pass. But Donald Trump's lewd remarks are being put out there with the statement that he is not fit to be president.

How is Hillary Clinton fit to be president? a woman who wholeheartedly supports the grisly procedure of partial-birth abortion, the woman who didn't answer the phone at 3 am when Ambassador Chris Stevens was being killed in Libya, the woman who with Barack Obama helped the fuel the rise of ISIS in the middle-east.

If Donald Trump is not fit to be president, then certainly Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president. The danger with Hillary Clinton is her Saul Alinsky ideology which will radically change America and move it so far left that there will never be another Republican president.

For those who are comparing the individuals who are running for president and who are going to vote on whom they think is the more 'moral' individual, you are dead wrong. It is not about the individual persons running, it is about what they will do to the country once elected. And, as Mark Levin said, if you abstain from voting because you think there is no plausible candidate, then you are guilty of whatever happens. You are complicit in what happens if you simply stay away or spoil your ballot.

This is a frightening moment in American history. Newt Gingrich said that, for the first time in his life, he is actually afraid of the future. This from a very reasoned man whose background is history. If he says he is afraid, then we should be too.

HANNITY: And there was a conference call earlier today and in the conference call basically Paul Ryan just distanced himself totally, wants nothing to do with Donald Trump, and the next eleven people, eleven or twelve people that spoke said what are you doing? And it seems that he would rather look at the sins of Trump, which I would agree, okay? Nobody is going to defend his words that he had on this tape. But I think it's unconscionable that the only person that would bring up the actions of the Clintons, which is now fair game and pertinent and front and center in this campaign, had to be Donald Trump himself.

GINGRICH: Well no I don’t think it’s cowardice, I think it’s genuine confusion. These are people who let the media manipulate them into believing that they only question Donald Trump. Now I’ve, as you said earlier, I’ve dealt with the Clintons. And I can tell you, if they think dealing with Obama has been hard. Hillary Clinton is more radical than Obama. She is more dishonest than Obama, she is more skillful at manipulation than Obama. The idea that they suggest anybody, that tolerating a Clinton presidency is an acceptable feat for America is a sign that they are not thinking. And I say this as a citizen not because I am for Donald Trump. I am deeply frightened that a Clinton administration would be the end of America as we have known it.

Monday, October 10, 2016

P*ssygate? Sorry, I decline to play by Washington Post rules. Every GOP nominee is a sexist pig: last time round, it was poor blameless Mitt with his "binders full of women" and his long track record of giving cancer to laid-off workers' wives. The fact that this particular nominee for once actually is a vainglorious sexist is not even interesting in a media stopped-clock kind of way - because Trump has more or less been advertising the fact on the Howard Stern show for a quarter-century. So the story is chiefly of note as a near parodic example of the ludicrously lop-sided standards applied to Democrats and Republicans: I mean, thealternativetoaTrumpvictoryistherestorationtotheWhiteHouseofacrediblyaccusedrapistandserialabuser, accompanied by the woman who has gleefully trashed his victims for 40 years. This race would be very different ifJuanita Broaddrick and "You might want to put some ice on that" had received a thousandth of the media coverage given to Alicia Machado and "Miss Piggy":

Thursday, October 6, 2016

US Chess Grandmaster Nazi Paikidze, upon learning that the chess final was to be held in Iran, has said that she will boycott the match. Even though this may damage her career, Nazi has decided that she cannot take part in a country that denies women many rights.

“Some consider a hijab part of culture,” a beautifully defiant Paikidze stated in an Instagram post. “But, I know that a lot of Iranian women are bravely protesting this forced law daily and risking a lot by doing so. That’s why I will NOT wear a hijab and support women's oppression.”

This week, she launched a campaign on Change.org demanding that FIDE choose a different location for the chess championship, preferably a place that doesn’t exploit scripture to oppress women.

So far, the petition has amassed about 3,000 signatures. To add your voice to Paikidze’s rallying cry,click here.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Many Catholics are troubled by our current Pope. And his latest pronouncements with regards to marriage, divorce and reception of the Sacraments has stirred up yet more controversy.

I have long been aware that Pope Francis is quite different from all other popes, in view of his ethnicity. Coming from Argentina rather than from Europe has cast a completely different light upon the papacy.

So when I read on Sandro Magister today, http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351383?eng=y that the Pope is indicating that it is the confessor or priest in whom one confides who is to discern whether or not a person in a second marriage can receive Communion, I was reminded of the Canadian bishops' statement regarding Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae in which he condemned artificial contraception when they said that Catholics must make this decision according to their own conscience and with the advice of their parish priest.

Since the Pope first indicated his real thoughts on this matter at the Synod on the Family and most recently in a letter of endorsement to the Argentinian bishops' statement on reception of the Eucharist, I thought how much is he influenced by Argentina.

A quick google search reveals that Argentina has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, seven out of ten marriages end in divorce within ten years. This translates to one divorce every 90 minutes.

Argentina is said to have the highest infidelity rate in all of South America.Divorce has been legal in the country since 1987, and now the country has the highest divorce rate as well.a